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Yea same thing happened to me in ho chi minh. In the end the meter read 660 when a normal meter would have been around 40-50 I think, so I assumed ok this meter has just one number too many so I offered 66k dong but he refused and kept repeating 660k so I got out without paying and he ran after me finally pulling out the change for my 100k dong note.

Was it one of the 2 decent taxi companies (VinaSun/MaiLinh), or a different company? Taxis other than those two companies are quite likely to be ripoffs (I'd say 80% chance), either by charging a lot more officially, or just running an outright scam.

dunno i was there for just a few days 4 years ago so didnt have an understanding of the different taxi companies. he was parked infront of one of the touristy indoor markets/bazaar things. Remember noticing the meter looked way different than all the other ones ive had.

I remember googling about those incidents afterwards and found a forum post of a guy saying a driver locked the doors and threatened not so subtly with a knife or something similar if he didnt pay the scam price in full. i was lucky in that it was such a public place where i got off so my driver couldnt really resort to that. He used quite intimidating tone of voice though and had locked the passanger side door but I was able to get out from the other side.